ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,948, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System-level power control for out-of-band (OOB) processors in heterogeneous computing platforms" was invented by Adolfo S. Montero (Pflugerville, Texas), Abeye Teshome (Austin, Texas) and Alok Pant (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for system-level power control for Out-of-Band (OOB) processors in heterogeneous computing platforms. In some embodiments, a heterogeneous computing platform may include a network device and an Embedded Controller (EC) or OOB Microcontroller Unit (MCU) coupled to the network device, where the net...